If you're wondering how bad things were at Pixar for women, the answer is pretty horrifyingly bad.
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If you're wondering how bad things were at Pixar for women, the answer is pretty horrifyingly bad.
don’t forget to destroy your clocks tonight, walk away from your mortgage, just start driving, you’re free
The LLM you use to code was trained on the open net, so weird security risks from hidden cryptocurrency mining just show up every now and then.
Partial list of core nutrition competencies: Domain 4: Collaborative, Interprofessional Referral and Patient Management 5 Competencies | 12.0 hours Competency # Competency Description Hours 39 Works with other health professionals for multidisciplinary nutrition care 2.5 40 Makes appropriate referrals to support patient health goals 2.0 41 Health coach and functional nutritionist collaboration: effectively co-manage patients with non-physician experts 2.5 42 Digital health technology integration: understand and recommend evidence-based wearables and platforms supporting nutrition outcomes 3.0 43 Functional medicine clinic rotations: shadow practitioners implementing food-first interventions and metabolic health approaches
Ok this is part of the HHS competency framework and it is some bullshit.
Literally anyone can call themselves a "nutritionist, or " health coach". There is no certification for this and RFK Jr. wants medical students to learn how to integrate woo into their curriculum.
North Kona water supply is in pretty good shape, despite a huge amount of it going to golf courses. Monitoring and adaptive planning to help it stay that way.
www.civilbeat.org/2026/03/nort...
Exactly! I have long asked if the alternative were data-free science...
Governing healthcare data of the people, by the people and for the people -- a call to action!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Informative thread...
I have so many examples of students questioning whether I know enough about a topic to teach it. I asked in faculty meeting "who has been questioned whether they are qualified to teach a class?" The women raised their hands, the men didn't. It's definitely rooted in sexism and racism.
NIH Office of Extramural Research announcements of feedback sessions for NIH-wide strategic plan for March 16 and April 8.
IMPORTANT---IMPORTANT---IMPORTANT
NIH is seeking input for the NIH-wide Strategic Plan. Open to everyone but Registration is Required!
Your chance to listen and get your 2 or more cents in.
grants.nih.gov/news-events/...
RFK Jr & McMahon wrote a vile letter to my medical school telling us we must stop generating a diverse medical workforce or they'd destroy us
🚨 He's also now forcing US medical schools to adopt HIS KOOKY CURRICULUM that "draws heavily on the work of Dr. Casey Means"
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/u...
This is going to be a big deal…
David Botstein, a titan within the scientific community, died last week. GSA mourns his passing and celebrates his legacy.
Read more about his significance to our community in this thread ⬇️🧵
Probably OCR errors, not in the originals
«US Supreme Court declines to hear dispute over copyrights for AI-generated material»
Lower courts ruling that "AI"-generated material can't be copyrighted thus stands.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-supreme-court-declines-hear-dispute-over-copyrights-ai-generated-material-2026-03-02/
My mentorship (M10) index is 42 according to this method. Not sure what that means, but hitting the Hitchhikers Guide number always feels good…
Inside the turmoil and leadership vacuum at the CDC
The Trump administration intends to nominate a permanent director soon
One person already turned the job down
NEW [gift link] www.wsj.com/health/healt...
The Lancet is not holding back in its latest issue.
"The destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 year might take generations to repair, and there is little hope for US health and science while he remains at the helm."
👉 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
@thelancet.com
Every anti-vaxxer I encounter seems to love weird unregulated supplements. They hate Big Pharma but they love Little Pharma, Big Pharma’s younger sibling who grew up without any adult supervision.
Congress rejected massive cuts to US science budgets for 2026, but much of the money still isn’t flowing to researchers.
The culprit? The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is quietly slow-walking the release of funds. 🧵👇
‘An AlphaFold 4’ – scientists marvel at DeepMind drug spin-off’s exclusive new AI
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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The big picture: Hegseth told Amodei in a tense meeting on Tuesday that the Pentagon will either cut ties and declare Anthropic a "supply chain risk," or invoke the Defense Production Act to force the company to tailor its model to the military's needs. Why it matters: The Pentagon wants to punish Anthropic as the feud over AI safeguards grows increasingly nasty, but officials are also worried about the consequences of losing access to its industry-leading model, Claude. "The only reason we're still talking to these people is we need them and we need them now. The problem for these guys is they are that good," a Defense official told Axios ahead of the meeting. Anthropic has said it is willing to adapt its usage policies for the Pentagon, but not to allow its model to be used for the mass surveillance of Americans or the development of weapons that fire without human involvement. Anthropic's Claude is the only AI model currently used for the military's most sensitive work.
There's a lot going on.
But it deserves FAR MORE ATTENTION that Whiskey Pete is going to seize the means of AI production so he can 1) engage in mass surveillance of Americans and 2) shoot without human intervention.
Dystopias this bad would be deemed unrealistic.
www.axios.com/2026/02/24/a...
I like this idea—as input to CSR decisions, but not dispositive. Reviewers can get to know each other’s review quality reasonably well over an entire panel.
Testing medical AI in the background (silent trials) is a mess of inconsistent terms and missing guidelines. A new study finds most focus on technical metrics (AUC) but ignore how humans actually use the tools, making it hard to know if these models will work once they’re finally live.
#MedSky
Us3’s “Hand on the Torch” album cover.
A new Nature Medicine study on ChatGPT Health isn't encouraging.
The system under-triaged 52% of emergencies, telling folks with DKA to wait 24-48 hours. It does fine on routine stuff, but fails at clinical extremes.
I'll take a deeper look 🧵
#MedSky #ChatGPTHealth
Well, he does have *some* experience; he's been driving the CDC into the ground for several months now.
As someone whose Ph.D. thesis advisor was in the Epstein files, this really spoke to me.
lissarankin.com/when-our-men...
